Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Is Sitting Too Close DANGEROUS?”.
We’Re all probably guilty of sitting a little too close to our screens, whether you’re a gamer and your monitor is too big for your desk or you spend hours a day with a VR, headset strapped to your noggin or if you were just yelled at by your Mom, by having your face practically smushed against the TV while you’re watching Saturday morning, cartoons Matt I’m old, but what exactly qualifies us? To close, I mean sure you don’t want to sit so close where you’re making out individual pixels but considering really close to the screen. Actually damage your vision, as the public has commonly believed to help us answer. We spoke with ophthalmology fellow and Cornell Medical School graduate dr., Daniel Agarwal and we’d like to thank him for his contributions. So a big part of the reason people worry about whether sitting too close can hurt their eyes is that many of us feel I strain when we’re staring at something for far too long. I strain is a natural consequence of attempting to focus on just one thing for long periods of time and if you’re sitting close to a screen, chances are you’re hyper focused on whatever it is you’re looking at say a tense moment in a sporting event or an Angry message from a soon-to-be ex lover, but why does focusing on something for a long time make your eyes hurt? It turns out that the mechanism for this isn’t completely understood, but it’s thought that, because your eyes are trying to intensely maintain their focus for so long, it ends up overworking your ciliary muscles. These are the muscles that control the shape and curvature of the crystalline lens and near the front of your eye, so that they can properly focus looking at something close by causes them to contract. So it’s natural that they might tire out just think about how sore your other muscles get after a hard day at the gym.
However, the good news is that this has never been demonstrated to cause permanent eye damage in adults and, if you’re worried about brightness. That’S probably not a big deal either as everyday electronic screens simply don’t appear to get bright enough to cause retinal damage, although it might be unpleasant to use a phone at full brightness in a dark room. I know that annoys me. It’S nowhere close to say staring at the Sun like an idiot or doing something stupid with a laser pointer, but if you’re a teenager or you have children or your teenager with children, keep in mind.
Some studies have suggested that excessively focusing on objects, too close to you – can cause nearsightedness or myopia later in life, because your eye is still growing at that age and this isn’t limited to sitting too close to electronic screens. Even if you’re spending too much time with your nose in a book that can cause problems too, so make sure you’re resting your eyes enough if you’re, one of our younger viewers, of course, eyestrain, is still annoying, even if it isn’t actually harmful to adults in the Long term, so, if you’re suffering from tired eyes after yet another hour of playing League of Legends, give your eyes a break and maybe go outside, where you’ll probably be paying attention to objects that are more distant from you. Another good idea is to use a reputable brand of artificial tears, not el cheapo eyedrops, since when you’re focusing on things close to you for long periods, your eyes tend to dry out because you’re not blinking as much. That’S really all there is to it. If you’re an adult, there are far greater health concerns from staring at a screen all day like maintaining poor posture or ending up like dr. Robotnik, because you never bother to get up from your racing chair.
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